Most of the small "book PC" type products, and the embedded boards, have PS/2 keyboard/mouse ports. So you can use a normal keyboard, or you can use smaller qwerty, half qwerty, or a chording keyboard. I use all of these depending on the situation. For the products that don't have PS/2, they can usually be used with USB equivalents, provided it has a host USB port (most PDAs don't have this, they have device USB port only (ie the PDA acts as a USB device not master). Some keyboard alternatives: http://home.earthlink.net/~wearable/hardware/#Input > little palmtops like the Sharp xoros come with > keyboard or they use any software based tuch screen > staff? Do you mean sharp zaurus? Search on xoros doesn't find me a PDA ... for most PDAs there are serial keyboard add-on products that clip onto the PC docking port/cradle interface. For example cirque makes a small keyboard that will work with palm, handspring, etc. There seems to be lots of PDA keyboards on the market today. I personally think they should just implement PS/2 ... -- Doug Nektarios wrote: > Sorry for the stupid question, but what kind of keyboard > could someone use for such an implementation? Do those >Regards. >Nektarios. > > >-----Original Message----- >From: speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca]On >Behalf Of Doug >Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 4:47 AM >To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca >Subject: Re: Linux notetaker > > >You can buy the Mini ITX boards that are inside that >box for cheap. Throw it in a box and you have the >same thing. You can also go down to about 4x4 inches >with and PC/104 CPU board. There are now a wide range >of single 4x4 or 4x6 inch boards with audio including >Pentiums, Geodes, Crusoe, etc. They are selling for >as low as $350 (with processor, without RAM). The >lower power units tend to cost more. I have tons of >info on embedded hardware and such here: > >http://home.earthlink.net/~wearable/ > > -- Doug > > > >Cecil wrote: > >Check out this article at cnet. > >http://news.com.com/2100-1042-998203.html?tag=fd_top > >Given a speakup enabled kernel and an external synth this would be a small > >package. If it's got onboard sound and software synth is an option then it > >moves up to awesome. > > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
